CPAC Crowd Breaks Out Into ‘Lock Her Up’ Chant During Trump Speech
US President Donald Trump returned to the Conservative Political Action Conference, assuring audience that they have a top advocate for their policy priorities in the White House while also taking aim at the media. “I’m not against the bad stories.I’m only against the fake news media and press”.
“They shouldn’t be allowed to use sources unless they use somebody’s name”. “There would be no more sources”. We are going to massively lower taxes on the middle class, reduce taxes on American business, and make our tax code more simple and much more fair for everyone, including the people and the business.
Looking back at the presidential campaign, Bannon called Trump the greatest speaker before large rallies since “William Jennings Bryan”, the populist Democrat who was his party’s nominee three times.
Bannon added, “Just like they were dead wrong on the chaos of the campaign and just like they were dead wrong on the chaos of the transition, they are absolutely dead wrong on what they’re reporting today”. Kibbe said he was “surprised by the lack of liberty groups”, and others who have been active in the movement said they too were disconcerted. I love the First Amendment.
Mary Layher, a retired teacher from Fairfax, Virginia, said that after listening to several Trump administration officials speak at CPAC, she’s impressed with what the president has accomplished in 30 days. “It doesn’t represent the people, it never will represent the people”. She was careful not to say she supported Trump exactly, but she did express a desire to see him succeed. Charters was escorted outside by security after he stood up during Trump’s speech and called Trump “Putin’s puppet” and a “fascist”.
Other issues Priebus said that the President should focus on is deregulation to spur economic job growth and enforcing current immigration laws such as building a wall on the Mexican border. “That’s how we protest, in the polls”, he said.
There were news reports, for example, that DeVos did not want the White House on Wednesday to reverse President Barack Obama’s order to let transgender children use bathrooms of the sex with which they identify.
Then followed a new phrase that is likely to enter the Trump lexicon: “There are no sources”. It’s going to be bigger, and better and stronger than ever before.
Reporters and editors from the alt-right outlet Breitbart News, formerly run by Trump’s chief strategist Steve Bannon, will moderate numerous events. “US!” as he spoke for almost 50 minutes in National Harbor, Md.
The fascistic tenor of the Trump administration is anchored in its ultra-nationalism, aimed at diverting social tensions outward and forcing Washington’s rivals to pay for the crisis of American capitalism. The military, Trump said, will be directed to develop a plan to “totally obliterate ISIS”, that is, organize a major escalation of the United States war drive in the Middle East.
“Every day, every day is going to be a fight”.
Trump reiterated his commitment to the American people, saying, “I’m here fighting for you, and I will continue to fight for you”.
The journalist said “a young man in a suit” was handing the banners out before Trump’s speech.
Pence in his remarks taunted “the media, the elites, the insiders, everybody else who profits off of preserving the status quo”, for dismissing Trump’s chances during the campaign. “The media didn’t think we would win”, he told the crowd.
Meanwhile, Trump returned to CPAC yesterday after skipping last year, seeking to reinforce the “America First” theme he laid out in his inaugural address and reclaim his leadership of a conservative movement that greeted him hostilely just a year ago. “And I think that that’s why this regulatory thing is so important”.
For a speech at CPAC, Trump took his time before he mentioned conservative values.